Vocabulary : Pensileness to Pensively
Pensileness : State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.Pension : A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. ;; A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like. ;; A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. ;; A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. ;; To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
Pensionaries : of Pensionary
Pensionary : Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. ;; Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance. ;; One who receives a pension; a pensioner. ;; One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
Pensioned : of Pension
